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Cool stuff, that oak is really interesting. That mac nut has a strange color, but the same happened to mine - its a bit reddish before it goes into stabilizing but seems to lose its color during the process. I haven't worked much with it, have to see what it looks like when finished but it shouldn't be much different fro what you show here.

The macadamia I had started out the olive/gray color.
Had been sitting outdoors and had discolored from rain and moisture. Slightly spalted.
I like this color better than the pink when fresh cut.
It stabilized really good. Lot of weight gain.

XLG Redheart Maple Burl

These are what we call red heart maple burl.
They were cut from a large maple burl that had started to die in the center. That area turns red, orange and other colors that are darker than normal maple burl.

You guys just about cleaned me out of the last batch of Redwood Burl so I figured I should add some more.
These are the ones I just finished adding to the webstore.
Click on the photo to go to that part of the store. Most of these were cut oversized.